We tried changing the folder name, however that makes our servlet crash. Couldn't find content.xml though; only admin.xml and manager.xml resides under /conf/ . The following error message is returned when trying to run the app:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:372) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor47.invoke(Unknown Source) sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243) java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:272) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:161) root cause java.lang.NullPointerException pubdb.Entry.getDocuments(Entry.java:399) pubdb.Entry.getEntryById(Entry.java:217) org.apache.jsp.search.search_005fresult_jsp._jspService(search_005fresult_jsp.java:677) org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:324) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor47.invoke(Unknown Source) sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243) java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:272) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:161) note (We might get a response that says "well it's a badly coded app then" :) however, since our java skills really aren't up to par, it would be great if there was an easier solution rather than rewriting the app.) On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 10:24 -0500, David Smith wrote: > There's a difference between webapp names and servlet names. You want > to change the webapp's name. To do that, just change the name of the > webapp in the webapps folder ie pub_db -> publications or pub_db.war -> > publications.war. You may have to make a similar name change to the > context.xml file in conf/Catalina/localhost and then restart tomcat. > > --David > > wille wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >having a bit of a problem here. > > > > > >We have deployed a web application on our server by putting it in the > >webapps directory, this makes it appear at a URL like > >http://mjau.com/pub_db. Now we want to change the URL for this webapp to > >something else, (in this case http://mjau.com/publications). > > > >Currently we've tried messing around with URL-mapping > >in /tomcat5/conf/web.xml and /tomcat5/webapps/WEB-INF/web.xml. > > > > > >We've tried to use the servlet-mapping directive in our web data > >xml-files, but it seems that the servlet is implicitly defined when > >putting the webapp in the webapps directory, because we have no servlet > >section in our web data xml-files. But things work anyway. > > > >But when we try to define our own servlet section, it won't work. > > > >We are running Tomcat 5.0.30, Java 5.0, on a Debian Etch server. > > > > > > > > > >This is what we've tried to do in the /tomcat5/conf/web.xml: > > > > <servlet> > > <servlet-name>pubdb</servlet-name> > > <servlet-class> > > pubdb > > </servlet-class> > > </servlet>--> > > > > <!--<servlet-mapping> > > <servlet-name>invoker</servlet-name> > > <url-pattern>/publications/*</url-pattern> > ></servlet-mapping>--> > > > ></web-app> > > > > > > > > > > > >Anyone have a clue what we're doing wrong? > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]